FULL TIME! Rovers 2 Birmingham 1 - Fortress Ewood in full effect once again as a double from David Dunn seals the points.
90+4 MINS: Martin Olsson is fouled, he has a free-kick. Rovers in no hurry, Clattenburg points to his watch.
90+4 MINS: Another dodgy clearance from Hart as the whistles from the Rovers fans echo around.
90+3 MINS: Hart has the ball in the right corner, Roberts runs at him forcing an early clearance but Rovers can't take advantage.
90+3 MINS: Salgado gives chase upfield, he's running around like its the second minute of the game.
90+2 MINS: Emerton round the back, but he can't find Pedersen in the area.
90+1 MINS: Carr with a ball into the area, Brown comes from miles out to punch and Rovers take it away to the safety of the far right corner.
90+1 MINS: David Dunn unsurprisingly gets the man of the match award.
90 MINS: Four additional minutes to beplayed.
90 MINS: McFadden with the corner, cleared at the near post.
90 MINS: The free-kick comes into the area, Samba clears behind.
89 MINS: Keith Andrews gets booked for kicking the ball away.
89 MINS: Good defending by Martin Olsson, shadowing fellow Swede Sebastian Larsson before drawing the foul from him.
88 MINS: That kick hurt, he's helped down the tunnel as Emerton comes on.
87 MINS: Dunn in the wars again as Ferguson kicks out. When he gets up, he'll be replaced by Brett Emerton.
86 MINS: The pitch really doesn't help close ball control and as Hoilett tries to get the ball to Dunn, Carr is in late on the double goalscorer. Yellow for the former Spurs man.
84 MINS: Salgado back on as Roberts is almost there, Johnson getting to the ball in the nick of time.
82 MINS: Salgado down after going up for a ball with Bowyer. There's a delay as treatment is given.
79 MINS: Here comes Birmingham's third and final change as Keith Fahey is replaced by Kevin Phillips.
77 MINS: Great approach work from Hoilett, but alas the same can't be said of the shot as it flies high and wide.
73 MINS: Birmingham make their first and second change, Cameron Jerome is replaced by Christian Benitez. Craig Gardner is replaced by Sebastian Larsson.
73 MINS: Pedersen takes, Samba rises at the back to head, Roberts tries to flick on but Hart claims.
72 MINS: Hoilett down the left, inside to Pedersen, back to Hoilett, but his shot is deflected behind.
71 MINS: Pedersen takes it but it is cleared away to touch.
70 MINS: The ball is pinged up to Jason Roberts who controls but then just loses his footing at the vital moment, allowing Johnson to put the ball behind for a corner.
69 MINS: Rovers make their second change of the game as El-Hadji Diouf is replaced by Junior Hoilett.
68 MINS: Dunn is booked for jumping into the Blackburn End.
67 MINS GOAL!! El-Hadji Diouf with the corner and somehow David Dunn gets in there to head home at the near post. Rovers 2 Birmingham City 1
67 MINS: Rovers have a corner as Samba and Johnson jump for the ball. Mark Clattenburg takes an age to make the decision.
66 MINS: Olsson and Gardner wrestle for the ball, Birmingham free-kick. McFadden takes but Rovers clear their lines.
63 MINS: Diouf feeds Salgado on the overlap but Dann jumps higher than Roberts in the area to clear.
62 MNIS: McFadden takes, Johnson and Samba go for the ball, the linesman wants a goal kick, the referee a corner, the linesman gets his way.
61 MINS: Safety first from Samba as he puts the ball behind in the corner. McFadden across for the corner.
60 MINS: Douf takes the kick from the left but Hart claims through the crowd.
59 MINS: Dunn breaks upfield and plays in Roberts, he twists turns and eventually shoots, the ball deflecting wide for a corner.
55 MINS: McFadden takes and McFadden scores, round the wall and past a static Jason Brown. Rovers 1 Birmingham 1
54 MINS: From the free-kick Pedersen pushes his man in the back. There's now a free-kick 20 yards out. Perfect for the left foot of McFadden.
53 MINS: Bit of a midfield battle this one. Tackles flying from both sides. Andrews fouls Bowyer who grabs Andrews' ankle, then his knee and then Bowyer starts rolling around in pain. Very strange. He's now walked to the sidelines.
52 MINS: A timely tackle from Dann as Roberts threatens. Roberts then looks for Diouf but Hart claims.
50 MINS: Great backing from the 'Blue Brigade' in the Darwen End, they've not stopped all night.
49 MINS: McFadden takes from the right with an inswinger, Brown claims through the crowd.
48 MINS: Good defending by Olsson is wasted by Pedersen who gives the ball away. Cart advances down the right touchline and crosses, Jones puts his clearance behind for a corner
46 MINS: Rovers make a change at the start of the second half, Niko Kalinic being replaced by Jason Roberts.
HALF TIME: Rovers 1 Birmingham 0 - The home side started strongly with Dunn scoring a great goal, but Birmingham are a threat and came back well.
45+2 MINS: Fahey with a free-kick into the area, Brown comes and claims comfortably. There goes the whistle.
45 MINS: Did you hear that out in internet land? 'There'll be two minutes of added time' booms out over the PA system.
45 MINS: Great defending by Jones to shadow Jerome and then block his cross.
44 MINS: Samba powers a header away, it comes to Ferguson who shoots from distance and is wide by a distance.
43 MINS: McFadden sends it in left-footed, Brown punches away.
42 MINS: Olsson blocks a centre for a corner.
41 MINS: David Dunn has the ball in the net a second time but Salgado is adjudged to have pulled down Bowyer in the box before finding Dunn.
40 MINS: Diouf whips in the corner from the left, over everyone although Clattenburg has spotted a Rovers offence.
39 MINS: Diouf cuts back from the byline, Kalinic goes in with Hart for the ball at the near post, Pedersen tries to nip in but it is put behind.
38 MINS: Better from Rovers as the ball reaches Olsson racing down the left on the overlap, but his cross is claimed by Hart.
37 MINS: Again the better play comes from Birmingham, taking their time to pass around Rovers, Carr with a low ball in from the right which Brown gets down to.
35 MINS: Sloppy from Dunn as he loses possession and then fouls Gardner in an attempt to get the ball back. McFadden with the free-kick from the far right, Johnson gets his head to the ball but there's no power and Brown comes and claims comfortably.
33 MINS: Neat passes by Birmingham sees Fahey look for Jerome in the area but Jones is there with an important header away.
32 MINS: The ball does arrive with Craig Gardner who shoots high into the Blackburn End.
31 MINS: Salgado stops the run of McFadden. Birmingham free-kick taken by Bowyer but headed away.
29 MINS: Jones is caught by an errant arm from Jerome. Rovers get the free-kick, the Birmingham striker is barely spoken to by Clattenburg.
27 MINS: Jones nips in to clear well, in the process sets up Niko but he's again flagged.
25 MINS: A change of shirt for Dunny and he's back, cute flick sees him send Kalinic away but he's flagged offside.
25 MINS: Meanwhile Pedersen launches a throw into the packed six yard box, it comes out to Salgado who loops aheader but wide.
24 MINS: In the mellee Dunn gets clattered and comes off for treatment, he doesn't look happy, stood on the touchline hands on hips
23 MINS: Dann into the back of Dunn, free-kick to Rovers. Pedersen stands over the ball, hits it into the area, Nzonzi tries to hook it on but Birmingham scramble it away.
21 MINS: McFadden with the free-kick, Samba heads, but not away, Johnson heads across the area but Olsson is on hand to win the ball and race away to safety.
20 MINS: Olsson falls over, no foul. McFadden falls over, foul. Very little difference between the two challenges from my vantage point.
18 MINS: A couple of nervy moments from Rovers as Birmingham start to claw their way back into this.
17 MINS: David Dunn has just been given something by Ally the kitman, not sure what it was, shin pad? Powerboost? Who knows? Ah, he's stopped, he puts shin pads down his socks.
14 MINS: We appear to have a drummer, and someone with something that makes a toot! They thump and toot along to the Big Sam's blue and white army chant.
12 MINS: Dunn advances and lofts the ball over the back four where Morten Pedersen hits an overhead kick but he's flagged offside as the ball goes wide.
11 MINS: Rovers clear the corner kick.
10 MINS: Nzonzi is somewhat harshly adjudged to have fouled his man. Free-kick taken short by Gardner to McFadden his shot deflects, but Jason Brown makes a superb one handed save to his right.
9 MINS: Phil Jones is in the Blackburn End crowd after failing to stop the ball going behind, but Andrews clears McFadden's corner kick at the near post.
8 MINS: Ball into Diouf in the area, he looks to cross for Kalinic but just over his head.
7 MINS: Pederse with a throw into the area, cleared initially, but Samba comes and claims out side the area with a mazy run, but he's ushered away from goal. Pedersen centres, it goes out for a Rovers through on the opposing side which comes to nothing.
5 MINS GOAL! And guess who? A long clearance upfield by Chris Samba sees Niko Kalinic make a nuisance of himself enough for David Dunn to latch onto the bouncing ball and David Dunn slams the ball home from 20 yards into the corner of the net. Rovers 1 Birmingham City 0
3 MINS: Jerome makes hay down the left, his cross is overhit, but kept in by Gardner, there's a spell of pressure from the visitors until they play it behind for a goal kick.
2 MINS: Pedersen with long throw but Birmingham clear.
2 MINS: This evening's referee is Mark Clattenburg.
1 MINS: early free-kick for Birmingham, Barry Ferguson floats it in, Phil Jones heads away and Martin Olsson completes the clearance.
1 MINS: Rovers in their traditional blue and white, Birmingham in an all black number.
0 MINS: Birmingham get the game underway kicking towards the Blackburn End in the first half.
Team news:
Rovers have named the same starting eleven as the one that drew 1-1 with Chelsea at the weekend.
Ryan Nelsen returns to the squad but has to be content with a place on the substitutes bench.
Birmingham make two changes from the side that lost at Sunderland. Lee Bowyer and James McFadden in for Michel and Benitez.
ROVERS: Brown, Salgado, Samba (c), Jones, Olsson, Pedersen, Andrews, Nzonzi, Dioufs (sub Hoilett 69 mins), Dunn (sub Emerton 88 mins), Kalinić (sub Roberts 46 mins).
Subs: Bunn (GK), Nelsen, Di Santo, Chimbonda.
BIRMINGHAM: Hart, Carr (c), Bowyer, Ridgewell, Jerome (sub Benitez 73 mins), Ferguson, Johnson, Dann, McFadden, Fahey (sub Phillips 79 mins), Gardner (sub Larsson 73 mins).
Subs: Taylor (c), Michel, Parnaby, Vignal.
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